“Now, it is clear that the decline of a language must ultimately have political and economic causes: it is not […]
Literary Issue – Why does literature still matter
Volume 22 Issue 4
Landscape paintings by Julian Samuel, 2009
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Because it opens your Heart
Literature has always been important, is still important and will continue to be important for as long as human […]
“Learning my ABCs”
Often inflated and possibly misleading, the titles I chose for my college Lit essays were always picked last and […]
Proverbs writ large
The novel encourages – a form of storytelling that promotes our sense of being individual, but never forgetting the bond […]
Lipsynch
Quebec’s Robert Lepage and his company, Ex Machina, collaborated with Theatre Sans Frontieres to bring Lipsynch, to The Brooklyn […]
The World in Her Hands
Samira sat on the floor of her adobe hut studying her hands as carefully as if she […]
Water Marks & Battle of Wills – Interview with Anne Henderson, documentary film maker.
In October 1975 Roy Lowther was charged with the murder of his wife, Pat, a gifted and renowned […]
Defending Her Hotel
WOMAN WILLING TO DEFEND HER HOTEL – MEXICO CITY [ZOCALO] HOTEL ISABEL 2003 I was invited to […]
The Honorable
In the tradition of Sadat Hasan Manto: A man by the name of X hopped from one shelter […]
Lash
I met him in a dream. It was a bar, and I sat staring into the long mirror as […]
“Stealing Nasreen” by Farzana Doctor
Stealing Nasreen by Farzana Doctor, Inanna Publications and Education Inc., May 2009, 230 pgs. Every immigrant to the western […]
1984 Widow Colony
Hope- For them hope is a rubber tyre around their necks Someone will douse kerosene […]
Parallèles et palpitations…
Le fils de madame Locarno a écrit un roman. Mon dieux dite-elle, à tous ceux qui l’interpellent Cette […]
Hero
The woodcutter’s daughter was not the one saved when he split open the wolf. Hero to someone […]
The Poet
So poet, you think you’re a mystic? With oars of words and boats of paper you navigate the […]
Shelf
Given it starts me reading, Letters on a page open up with meaning, With someone else’s words who […]
The Great Foreskin Debate
Why do Jews have to be circumcised? Christ was a Jew before the Christians arrived, Yet Catholics tend to […]